Pimped Penguin Pages

Thursday, August 30, 2012

I don't know about you, but I don't like to print out a document, sign it, and then have to re-scan it back into the computer. This can happen a lot if you're also in the process of looking for a job.

For this example, I also wanted to pay a little homage to Neil Armstrong, as he just passed away. Don Pablo Pereira, a reporter had a little story about a letter from Mr. Armstrong and I'll post a link to that at the end of the blog post.

You'll need to also have created a scanned image of your own signature, that you will be using. If you need help with that, leave a comment, here or on G+ and I'll do a separate blog post about how to create your own digital signature with the GIMP.

If you want, you can grab the document that I made in LibreOffice and edit it too. I imagine this will work in OpenOffice too, but I've not tested it with OpenOffice.

Once you have your document open, you will want to import the image file. Be sure to have your cursor near the spot you want it to be imported to, if you can.

Insert>Picture>From File...

Once you've done that, you'll notice that it's not lined up the way that you'd want it to be on your document as a signature.

It'll look all wonky like this:

This is certainly not the way you'd have a signature show up on a real document! It's got to be fixed!

It's an easy fix. Just go up to the top of the page and click on Wrap Trough.

Then move your signature to the spot that you want it on your page, and save.

Once you save it, print it to paper, if you want, or Export it as a PDF or Print it as a PDF.

The choice is yours.

Pretty simple, eh?

If you used my document, you'll also have a fresh .PDF of the same letter that Neil Armstrong sent Don Pereira.